Isak
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
IT is often unanticipated: purity wills violence. Even death. Although this is not initially the theme of the story of Isak, the character walking towards the woods:
The man comes, walking toward the north…A strong, coarse fellow, with a red iron beard, and little scars on face and hands…the figure of a man in this great solitude…
Isak is the character in Knut Hamsun’s novel Markens GrØde (published in 1917 in W. W. Worster’s English
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